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Mrs Rosie and the Priest
Author | : Giovanni Boccaccio |
Publsiher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 2015-02-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780141397832 |
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Four hilarious and provocative stories from Boccaccio's Decameron, featuring cuckolded husbands, cross-dressing wives and very bad priests. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375). Boccaccio's Decameron is available in Penguin Classics in both a complete and selected edition.
Tales from the Decameron
Author | : Giovanni Boccaccio |
Publsiher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2015-10-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780141927503 |
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Bawdy and moving, hilarious and reflective - these stories offer the very best of Boccaccio's Decameron in a brilliant, playful new translation. This hugely enjoyable volume collects the best stories of Boccaccio's masterwork in a fresh, accessible new translation by Peter Hainsworth. It includes such celebrated, thought-provoking tales as 'Isabella and the Pot of Basil' (famously adapted by Keats) and 'Patient Griselda' alongside many boisterous and daring stories featuring faithless wives, philandering priests and curious nuns.
A Cup of Sake Beneath the Cherry Trees
Author | : Kenko |
Publsiher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 2015-02-26 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780141398266 |
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'It is a most wonderful comfort to sit alone beneath a lamp, book spread before you, and commune with someone from the past whom you have never met...' Moonlight, sake, spring blossom, idle moments, a woman's hair - these exquisite reflections on life's fleeting pleasures by a thirteenth-century Japanese monk are delicately attuned to nature and the senses. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Yoshida Kenko (c. 1283-1352). Kenko's work is included in Penguin Classics in Essays in Idleness and Hojoki.
A Modern Detective
Author | : Edgar Allan Poe |
Publsiher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2016-03-03 |
Genre | : True Crime |
ISBN | : 9780241252338 |
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He is fond of enigmas, of conundrums, hieroglyphics; exhibiting in his solutions of each a degree of acumen which appears to the ordinary apprehension praeternatural.
Traffic
Author | : John Ruskin |
Publsiher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 2015-02-26 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780141398150 |
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'You shall have thousands of gold pieces; - thousands of thousands - millions - mountains of gold: where will you keep them?' Two of Ruskin's most powerful essays: 'Traffic' and 'The Roots of Honour' Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. John Ruskin (1819-1900). Ruskin's Unto This Last and Other Writings is available in Penguin Classics.
The Body Politic
Author | : Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
Publsiher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2016-03-03 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780241252024 |
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'No true Democracy has ever existed, nor ever will exist.' In this selection from The Social Contract, Rousseau asserts that a state's only legitimate political authority comes from its people. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.
A Nervous Breakdown
Author | : Anton Chekhov |
Publsiher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 128 |
Release | : 2016-03-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780241251799 |
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'I did have hallucinations, but did they harm anyone? Who did they harm, that's what I'd like to know!'
The Constitution of the United States
Author | : Founding Fathers |
Publsiher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 64 |
Release | : 2017-04-06 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780241318508 |
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Both enshrining the fundamental rights and freedoms of its citizens in law, and curbing the power of those who rule them, the US constitution is one of the most significant documents in the history of democracy.